The Basics and your First Battle:
To win your first battle you need to do the following:
1) Train your pet's health, speed and strength stats at the gym on Minipet Island. Health allows your pet to take more damage before being defeated, whereas a combination of strength and speed contribute to the damage your pet deals.

I have tested this using a new pet, and I would advise having 5 health, 5 strength and 5 speed minimum before tackling your first battle. We can ignore other stats for now
2) Equip your pet with 2 weapons and 2 wands. My recommendations for cheap weapons are 2 x Bough Bow or 2 x Grassy Axe which can bought from shop search. Both do the same damage so buy whichever is cheapest at the time.


For wands use 2 magic staffs. The most MP efficient ones I would recommend the Kirin Magic Staff, which can be bought from shop search and can heal you for 72 health per turn. You can also use pet specific ones bought from the weapons shop. Ex. For a murfin, you would want 2 murfin magic staff, which can be purchased from the weapons shop. However, these will not heal as much.




To equip your weapons, simply use the items in your inventory and equip them to the pet you have been training at the gym. Your pet can have a maximum of 5 weapons/wands equipped. To remove wands, go to your pet's profile, click "weapons", and then just click any weapons you want to remove from your pet.
3) Buy a cheap, and easy trading card. I would recommend the Appy Trading Card or Mara Trading Card. To see how much damage a card will do in a turn, visit this site here :
https://sites.google.com/site/marabattleguide/tradingcards/attack
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